Kristen A Baker
| British Academy Postdoctoral Fellow
| PhD from @BrockUniversity
| Website: k-a-baker.github.io/Kristen_A_Baker.git…
| Research: Face recognition
| Outside research: Nature & animal lover
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- Reposted by Kristen A BakerAny postdocs outside the UK interested in applying for a Marie Curie fellowship with me (sensory processing, decision making, vision), get in touch! Our school of psychology @unibirmingham.bsky.social is offering costs towards a campus visit to give a talk, develop a proposal and attend training!
- Reposted by Kristen A BakerTogether with the @royalsociety.org, we invite applications for the International Fellowships 2026. The scheme supports international early career researchers in advancing their expertise through collaborations with UK partners. Learn more: bit.ly/3LaMIBC
- Karen is a great PI-- highly recommend this for ECRs interested in memory!
- 📣Hey international PhDs & Postdocs, the Canadian Government has an upcoming fellowship opportunity. nserc-crsng.canada.ca/en/canada-im... I will be looking to sponsor a Postdoc to work with Linda Geerligs & me on LONGITUDINAL changes in neural states during movie watching & memory. ✉️ me your CV
- Reposted by Kristen A BakerIn a new paper (with @kayritchie.bsky.social, Eilidh Noyes, Carl Bunce and Josh Davis) we investigated AI-face detection in super-recognisers and typical-ability participants, both with and without a short training procedure. See the link below for the results! doi.org/10.1098/rsos...
- Reposted by Kristen A BakerI am looking to create a lab code of conduct/manual/safety check type document outlining the ethos of how we work. Could anyone point me in the direction of a good (open source) example covering safety, comms, working with others etc.? Or would anyone be willing to share theirs? Thank you!
- Proud supervisor moment 🎉: The PhD student that I am co-supervising just won first prize for his poster at the school's PhD conference!! It's only Wednesday, and it's already a great week!
- I was born and raised a Blue Jays fan, so of course I am watching the game (even though it's ... well ... very early in the UK). Come on #BlueJays ! You can fight back from this!
- Aaron Judge just launched a three-run shot off the left field foul pole and it’s tied, 6-6. The press box is shaking. #BlueJays
- Reposted by Kristen A BakerJane Goodall, world-renowned primatologist, dies aged 91
- Reposted by Kristen A BakerExcited to share a new article from @icevislab.bsky.social! In a sample of over 60 people, we found distinct neural differences underlying object and face recognition in dyslexia. These findings highlight crucial domain-general visual processes that may contribute to word reading challenges.
- Reposted by Kristen A BakerHi #canadian researchers - please sign this petition to help ensure funding isn’t cut to tri council agencies (NSERC, SSHRC, and CIHR). We’re looking at potential 15% cuts to ALL federal spending including grants win.newmode.net/canadianasso...
- Reposted by Kristen A Baker🚨 The wait is almost over! @cogscisociety.bsky.social × Blue Sky Grant applications open tomorrow. Five grants worth $1,810 each are here to support your next research idea. Join our webinar this Thursday 4PM BST for insider tips on how to submit a winning application. 👉 Register: bit.ly/3K28s1y
- Reposted by Kristen A BakerIllusion of the Year contender right here. #VisionScience
- Reposted by Kristen A BakerInterested in #EEG #FPVS #FaceLearning? *An Ecological and Objective Neural Marker of Implicit Learning of Unfamiliar Identities* Preprint 👉 osf.io/preprints/ps... @bfh-ch.bsky.social University of Malta @snsf.ch
- Because everyone needs a bit of positivity in times like these:
- What an incredible conference! #ECVP2025 was jam packed with amazing research and fun events. Now that it is over, I hope everyone gets some well-deserved rest!
- Reposted by Kristen A BakerHot off the press: 1st ever #FPVS #EEG investigation into #SuperRecognizers Congrats to my amazing collaborators Jeff Nador, Kim Uittenhove & Dario Gordillo and thanks to all #police SRs & control participants! @bfh-ch.bsky.social, EPFL, @snsf.ch, Polizei Berlin link.springer.com/article/10.1...
- Reposted by Kristen A BakerHave you heard the news? Something big is coming for researchers! 🌟 Gorilla is running a brand new grant scheme this September in partnership with the @cogscisociety.bsky.social 🎉 Register your interest now to be the first to know when applications open. ⬇️ 👉 bit.ly/4fmOD0m
- I gotta say that I love that the Royal Society has this contest every year! And, for the first time ever, I actually submitted 4 of my photographs! *Fingers crossed*
- The Royal Society Publishing Photography Competition is now open for entries until 15 August 2025! Categories include Astronomy, Behaviour, Earth Science & Climatology, Ecology & Environmental Science, and Microimaging. Find out more: royalsociety.org/journals/pub... #RSPphotocomp
- I am VERY excited to announce that I was awarded a British Academy Postdoctoral Fellowship (@britishacademy.bsky.social ) ! With this funding, I will be investigating forensic face matching through collaborative decision-making!

- Just in case you're curious about my project, or the other exciting projects that were successful, you can find all of the abstracts here: www.thebritishacademy.ac.uk/funding/post...
- Reposted by Kristen A BakerJoin us on August 22nd in collaboration with CSBBCS and SPARK Society for a free online webinar on finding postdoc opportunities! Visit the following link to register for the event: shorturl.at/BVPtC We hope to see you there!! Please note that the meeting will be held exclusively in English.
- Reposted by Kristen A BakerThe @cbcradiocanada.bsky.social interview with Mike Myers on the eve of Canada Day is sooo good. And yes, we need more Mike Myers always 🇨🇦: www.youtube.com/watch?v=Sq_x...
- Reposted by Kristen A BakerFour year 0.8 FTE post doc at Stirling with Dr. Line Caes (our Health Group) on a Oliver Bird Fund -funded project “Challenges young people face in managing musculoskeletal chronic pain”. www.stir.ac.uk/about/work-a...
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- Reposted by Kristen A BakerJoin the Early Career Research Network in September for the National Postdoctoral Conference which aims to celebrate, unite, and empower postdoctoral researchers from across the UK. Register here: www.thebritishacademy.ac.uk/events/natio...
- Reposted by Kristen A BakerPlease distribute: PhD Position in Visual Perception -- joint opportunity in Iceland and Switzerland #visionscience #cogsci #neuroskyence #psychscisky #phd #academia
- Reposted by Kristen A BakerRandom self-promotion, but my hands-on #VisionScience textbook is available for <$50 at the moment! If you're excited about using analog demos of visual phenomena in your classroom, it's a great time to snag a copy! #STEMed
- Reposted by Kristen A BakerAre you a postdoctoral researcher? Don't miss the application deadline for BA/Leverhulme Small Research Grants on 4 June. Funding is available for research projects across all areas of the humanities and social sciences. Apply now: buff.ly/fLXzGVz
- Reposted by Kristen A BakerA free training workshop on PsychoPy, perfect for research trainees! #visionscience #cogsci #workingmemory #vss2025
- Head on over to our brand-new website opamconference.com to create a free account and register for our first free online workshop taking place later this month!
- Reposted by Kristen A BakerDear Canadian researchers, faculty, RAs, PDFs and grad students, this letter is for the federal party leaders asking them to defend and expand Canadian research sovereignty with a historic investment in science, please sign and share docs.google.com/document/d/1...
- Reposted by Kristen A BakerVery excited for the next @exppsychsoc.bsky.social meeting taking place in Dundee this July! UK abstract portals open *today* (7th April), 10am 😄
- EPS Meeting: University of Dundee. 8th – 11th July 2025. A joint meeting with the Canadian Society for Brain, Behaviour and Cognitive Science (CSBBCS). Submission portals for this meeting will open at 10am (UK Time) on April 7th 2025 for a minimum of 24 hours. eps.ac.uk/next-meeting/
- 🎉My new paper with Markus Bindemann that investigates whether face-matching decisions would change depending on the framing of response options, is now available in Journal of Applied Research in Memory and Cognition (@apajournals.bsky.social), LINK: doi.org/10.1037/mac0.... [1/7]
- In 3 experiments, individuals completed a face matching task wherein they decided whether pairs of faces were of the same person. These decisions were made with either neutral response options (Same/Different), which shouldn’t bias individuals toward either response, or with biased ... [2/7]
- response options (e.g., Same/Not-Same; Same/Proceed-to-Next-Trial), which should bias individuals toward making “same” responses. Decisions, as measured by criterion, weren’t influenced by the framing of response options--even when we accounted for individual differences. [3/7]
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View full threadThanks to APA's agreement with Research Gate, they have made the full text available there! Or, you can also find the final, accepted, preformatted version here: osf.io/c6yqa/files/... [7/7]
- Reposted by Kristen A BakerPass it on. #StandWithUkraine
- Reposted by Kristen A Baker75 years of diplomacy, hard work and a commitment to liberal democracy has just been flushed down the toilet by Trump, Vance and their MAGA idiots. Here is my final dispatch from the NATO meetings: Where Canada and Europe goes from here. substack.com/home/post/p-...
- Reposted by Kristen A BakerPlease sign the letter if you haven’t.
- If anyone knows a potential PhD student, I can highly recommend this PI and the Icelandic Vision Lab-- it is such a great environment! And, I know this because I'm basically an honorary member of the Lab-- haha!
- I am looking for a PhD candidate (3-years) and a Postdoc (2-years) studying serial effects in visual perception. Positions are funded by the Icelandic Research Fund. Join us at the Icelandic Vision Lab @icevislab.bsky.social. If you are interested, reach out to me! #VisionScience #CognitiveScience
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- Reposted by Kristen A BakerTwo grants to IVL 🥳 "Serial effects in visual perception" to PI @shansmann-roth.bsky.social + "Haptic harmony" to postdoc Ivan Makarov in collab with Unnthorsson, Kristjánsson, Jónasson & Uenala. Sabrina is looking for candidates for a three-year Ph.D. and a two-year postdoc position: sabrina@hi.is
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- Show the NFL you’re paying attention. Don’t watch the Super Bowl—make the ratings tank. Instead, listen on the radio. Money talks, and so do numbers. Stand against those who bend the knee to fascism. Tune out, speak up, and hit them where it counts. #BoycottNFL #TurnItOff #ListenDontWatch
- Reposted by Kristen A BakerWhat is a good platform for doing online survey research of persons with neurodevelopmental disorders (ADHD, ASD)? Prolific?
- Reposted by Kristen A BakerWe’re hiring! We are looking for a postdoc in my lab, childvisionlab.co.uk to study how early vision loss & sight-rescuing treatments shape brain development. Join our Wellcome-funded project using advanced neuroimaging and behavioral methods! Deadline March 1st, start date flexible. t.ly/2Yoel
- [1/2] I made a change to the #FaceProcessing feed (found here: bsky.app/profile/did:...). Essentially because it wasn't catching the tags well enough it now shows the posts of all the researchers who are in the face processing starter pack (found here: go.bsky.app/9A7EJsU)
- [2/2] If your research has anything to do with faces (recognition, perception, first impressions, attractiveness, etc) and you're not a member of the starter pack let me know. I will add you! Also feel free to follow the feed!
- Reposted by Kristen A BakerFirst post on Bluesky! Looking forward to viewing and sharing more content related to vision, perception, and life in general. All the best!
- Reposted by Kristen A BakerWe've joined #bluesky on our 50th anniversary! Follow us for research, commentary, and helpful tips for authors. To kick things off, we're excited to share these short editorials by Michael Posner, Isabel Gauthier (our editor), and David Rosenbaum: psycnet.apa.org/PsycARTICLES...
- It's probably time to re-share this #FaceProcessing starter pack! If you do face research (e.g., face perceptiom/memory, detection, attractiveness or first impressions), and would like to be added, let me know below! Ps. The associated feed is linked in the next comment below. go.bsky.app/9A7EJsUat://did:plc:xgbdyrhaqczkldfsafn6flbm/app.bsky.graph.starterpack/3lauin37oa72g
- Link to the #FaceProcessing feed: bsky.app/profile/did:...
- I've created a feed associated with theFace Processing starter pack (go.bsky.app/9A7EJsU). You can post to the feed using any of the following tags: #FaceMatching, #FaceMemory, #FaceLearning, #FaceIdentification, #FacialAttactiveness, #FacialFirstImpressions, #FaceProcessing, #FaceRecognitionat://did:plc:xgbdyrhaqczkldfsafn6flbm/app.bsky.graph.starterpack/3lauin37oa72g
- The #FaceProcessing feed is still a work in progress, so let me know if there are any other tags that I should include. Also, I've missed some #FaceRecognitionresearchers (& all other Face* researchers)! Please let me know who I've missed, and if if I've missed you please let me know!
- The feed is linked below for ease of access/ following: bsky.app/profile/did:...
- Reposted by Kristen A Baker'Automated face recognition assists with low‐prevalence face identity mismatches but can bias users'- our new paper funded by the EPS Graduate Bursary to Melina Mueller and Anna Bobak is now online! @rjwatt42.bsky.social @pjbhancock.bsky.social bpspsychub.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...
- Reposted by Kristen A BakerLooking to follow more graduate students in psychology? Look no further. Comment to be added! go.bsky.app/SJfTsPJat://did:plc:iv2xgfrrd2cxebmhjs7tvigw/app.bsky.graph.starterpack/3lavzs7oizr2w
- Hopefully I'm not being too presumptuous here, but I figured there might be some need for a face perception starter pack. I know that I wanted one to exist so I'd know who to follow. I've added some folks that do work related to face perception, but let me know if you want in! go.bsky.app/9A7EJsUat://did:plc:xgbdyrhaqczkldfsafn6flbm/app.bsky.graph.starterpack/3lauin37oa72g
- Reposted by Kristen A BakerTesting if this works... Trying to make a starter pack for researchers in #perception science Please share ! Will be adding more folks as I learn how #academicsky works ! go.bsky.app/V99fSBK
- Reposted by Kristen A Baker📣🧠📣 I’m hiring !! 📣🧠📣 We’re looking for a postdoc to join The Uncertainty Lab at @birkbeckpsychology.bsky.social You’ll lead fMRI work on a new project studying how communication with others alters private metacognition of our own minds. cis7.bbk.ac.uk/vacancy/post...
- Reposted by Kristen A BakerNew York University has two *Open Rank* Faculty Positions in Social Psychology We will consider applicants from all career stages and all areas of Social Psychology apply.interfolio.com/154805 We are especially interested in scholarship that takes novel quantitative & methodological approaches
- Reposted by Kristen A BakerThe best writing advice I've ever gotten is to remember that the first draft is where you explain it all to yourself and then the second draft is where you explain it all to your readers.
- Reposted by Kristen A BakerOur student Caelan is recruiting #neurodivergent adults to take part in research into face recognition abilities. Details below. Can you help or share? We'd love to hear from #autistic people or those with #ADHD or #dyspraxia for example. Register interest here forms.office.com/e/Yw6rFUseVu
- Reposted by Kristen A Baker#ECVP2024 starts in 3 days, and we are excited to welcome you all to Aberdeen! Guillermo del Toro (@realgdt.bsky.social) is here too, and he is loving it 😆 @ecvp.bsky.social
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- If you haven't yet, you should follow Geraldine, she does really cool work!
- If you're attending #VSS2024, you should be sure to check out @bpitchford.bsky.social and @heidasigurdar.bsky.social's poster for the 2:40 session (26.421) today! I've seen it-- and I have to say, it is really cool stuff!
- Reposted by Kristen A Baker🚨Job alert!🚨 Are you curious about curiosity, and looking for a post-doc position? Then please consider applying: www.ru.nl/en/working-a... Feel free to e-mail/DM me if you have questions. Thanks very much for sharing/re-posting!
- Reposted by Kristen A BakerRegistration and abstract submission for ECVP 2024 are now officially open. For further instructions see ecvp2024.abdn.ac.uk/submission/r... Looking forward to meeting you in Scotland! 🏴🥃 #visionscience #psychscisky #neuroskyence
- In a new paper, we examined whether individuals shift criterion in face identification when base rates &/or payoffs are biased. We showed that 1. participants shifted criteria in biased environments, & 2. criterion was most extreme when face identification was poor! psycnet.apa.org/doiLanding?d...
- Reposted by Kristen A BakerImportant so please help spread the word... Interested in postgrad research? Maybe do a PhD? Oxford runs a summer internship scheme for UK students from under-represented and disadvantaged backgrounds Stipend, free accommodation, mentoring... Deadline 21 Feb www.ox.ac.uk/admissions/g...